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RM-UC1 Photoirmote cablemod circuit diagram

PhotoIRmote CableMod for Olympus RM-UC1

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4 months ago
by Ed in , ,
Late last year I borrowed my mother in laws DSLR camera for a weekend. 5 months later I returned it (following repeated requests), I loved it and the photos it made possible, and I also began planning some types of photo I’d like to take, like Star Trails. The (recommended) way of taking these with [...]
The Dieselman EGR defeat circuit

EGR Delete on a Chrysler PT Cruiser CRD

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7 months ago
by Ed in
Over the last year we have had many problems with our car, and I have tried many things to fix it. I may have given the impression when writing about the P10A4 error that I jumped straight to the solution, but I actually tried a few other things first, one of which was an EGR delete. (more…)
The hose comes with a print-out of Martins instructions

PT Cruiser CRD error code P01A4

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8 months ago
by Ed in
Since we bought our diesel PT Cruiser last year we have not been able to drive very fast. Partly this was due to us having no water pump, and partly, we thought, this was due to the fact that it was a diesel. In our defence we had never had a diesel before, and our whole lives we had been told that [...]
8mm Non-return valve on overflow pipe

Air lock in home made EWP system

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8 months ago
by Ed in
In August I added a post about making your own EWP (electric water pump) system (in this case installed in our diesel PT Cruiser). At the end of it I added a little note about the car still overheating once or twice and it being due to a faulty fuse, well I was wrong, it was a very specific form of [...]
The finished article. Just remove the length of bolt to bleed the system.

Add a bleed point to your car radiator

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10 months ago
by Ed in ,
In my last post I mentioned (several times) a bespoke bleed point on my car and that I was forced to install one after I broke the old one, well here (in pictures) is how I built it. (more…)
The completed system

Build your own electric water cooling pump system

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10 months ago
by Ed in ,
There is a minor addition to this post, it can be found here. For most of the last year we have been unable to drive our car (a diesel PT Cruiser) for any length of time above 50mph, it took me until last Christmas to work out this was because the water pump (mechanical) wasn’t working (in my [...]
So you get the general idea; the strip of wood to the right of the photo is the total depth of the wardrobe

Space saving thin wardrobe

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10 months ago
by Ed in
Living in a small house is very Eco-friendly. You take up less land, you use fewer resources, it even costs less to heat it. It is sadly also a s*d for storage, a problem we have been fighting with for a few years, so here is the first of what I hope to be a few posts about space saving ideas we [...]
Digging out the compost

More compost and planter

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1 year ago
by Ed in ,
Not the most exciting post but the best I can think up, as you can tell from the lack of posts over the last month I am very busy with work [current project]! This weekend we set aside some time to work on our garden. It has been in a sorry state for 2 or 3 years now (I can’t remember which), with [...]
PT Cruiser Diesel (CRD)

Car stuff

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1 year ago
by Ed in
I wrote lots last year about making my home more eco-friendly, but I’ve said nothing about my car, which I have to change for two reasons; Your car forms one of the largest out-goings per month for any family, especially due to fuel prices I have spent the last few months working flat-out on my [...]
A proud daughter!

Child-manufactured Firesteel

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1 year ago
by Ed in , , ,
First of all I should say that this post was written on the 30th of November and then scheduled for publication today, so sorry if this post seems to have missed out on some major planetary event (such as a zombie invasion or early 2012 apocalypse). If those things have happened then I am very [...]
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